Arthur evans davis



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A. E. DAVIS.

BOOT 0R SHOE LAGE TAG AND TIE IF'ASTENER.

UNKTE ARTHUR EVANS DAVIS, on LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOOT OR SHOE LACE TAG AND TIE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,680, dated March 12,1895.

Application filed August 13, 1894. Serial No. 520,743- (No model.) Patented in Belgium May '7, 1894, No- 109,812.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR EVANS DAVIs,"

a citizen of Great Britain,residing at 53 Melbourne Grove, East Dulwich, S. E., London, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented a new and useful Boot or Shoe Lace Tag and Tie Fastener, (for which I have obtained Let ters Patent in Belgium, No. 109,812, dated May 7, 1894,) of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a tag by means of which the bow of a shoe lace after tying may be held and prevented from becoming untied, while the tag itself shall not dangle about.

The invention consists of a hollow tag in the middle of which a slot is formed through which the bow of the shoe lace is passed and held by a sliding collar, thus giving a tidy appearance to the bow and preventing its be coming untied.

The accompanying drawings illustratemy invention, similar letters indicating similar parts throughout.

Figure 1 shows the bow after being tied and secured by the tags. Fig. 2 is the tag proper and Figs. 3 and 4 show the sliding collar, while Fig. 5 is the tag and collar complete.

The tag consists of a metal cylinder Fig. 2 slotted out at A and formed at B in the usual way for securing it to the lace, while the collar which slides upon the said tag and which is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is prevented from being lost by the pin 0. In Fig. l the lace is represented by the letter D, the tags by the letter E and the collars by the letter F.

The lace l) is secured to the tags E E at each end in the usual way and after being tied the bows which are formed by tying are passed through the slots A A in tags E E as shown and collars F F are then slipped up to the lace, and hold it firmly, the sides of the tags E Ebeing slightly expanded in order to form springs, thus preventing the collars F F from slipping back, and the tags E E are thus at the same time held by the bows D" D and cannot dangle about, while the bows cannot become untied.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is The herein described shoe-lace tag, comprising a cylindrical section adapted to be secured to a lace and having a longitudinal slot through which a bow of the lace is adapted to be passed, said section being expanded upon each side of the slot to form a spring or looking portion and a sleeve slidingly mounted upon the said section, and provided with a pin extending through the slot, for the purpose specified.

ARTHUR EVANS DAVIS.

Witnesses:

A. H. REED, W. MoATEs. 

